Divine World Glyptics
Az i.e. I. évezredi pecséthengerek korpusza
MTA–ELTE Lendület
Újasszír és Újbabiloni Pecséthengerek és Istenvilág Kutatócsoport
| Object no. | S02132 |
| Description of the seal image | The scene is framed by line borders at the top and bottom. A bearded hunter (archer) wearing a horned headdress decorated with globes on the top and a long, broad-belted robe with a fringed lower edge aims his bow at a jumping winged horse. Between them is a small palmette-like stylised plant with globe-tipped leaves. Above the hybrid creature is a crescent moon next to the winged sun-disc, while below it is a fish. Behind the two figures is an eight-rayed, globe-centred star above another palmette-like stylised plant with globe-tipped leaves and a long stem. |
| Figures, motifs/symbols |
- borderlines (2): line borders at the top and bottom - crescent moon - fish - hero: archer, hunter, bearded, wearing a horned headdress decorated with globes and a long, broad-belted robe with a fringed lower edge - stylised plant 1: small, palmette-like, with globe-tipped leaves - stylised plant 2: palmette-like, with globe-tipped leaves and a long stem - star: eight-rayed, globe-centred - winged horse: jumping - winged sun-disc |
| Subcategory | cylinder seal |
| Collection | ex-Williams Collection |
| Museum number | N/A |
| Culture | Neo-Babylonian |
| Provenance | ex-Williams Collection: assembled by Reverend Dr William Frederick Williams; after him, owned by Mr Robert S. Williams of Utica, New York |
| First occurence | before 1886 |
| Archaeological context | N/A |
| Registration number | N/A |
| Dimensions (mm): height, diameter | h: 36, d: 14 |
| Material and features | "yellow agate" |
| Style | cut, drilled |
| Scene | hunting |
| Bibliography |
Menant 1886, 255–256 no. 16 and pl. VI. Menant, J.: "Oriental Cylinders of the Williams Collection". The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts 2/3 (1886) 247–260. |
| Object history | The publications mentioning the objects in this database were collected and the objects classified by ZN; data for the present object was input and preliminary description of the object done by GE based on the relevant publication provided, then the data was checked by MNy and the present object descriptions done by HL; object data and description were finalized by ZN. GE – Gábor Erdős, HL – Huba Lőrincz, ZN – Zoltán Niederreiter, MNy – Mónika Nyitrai |